Quotes

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Vices are not crimes.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.